{"id":1548,"date":"2016-07-20T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T11:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:36:08","slug":"soil-building-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Soil Building Continues July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1147\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-1.jpeg\" alt=\"blog post\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-1.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-1-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Soil building continues at Bent Pine Farm. \u00a0The chicken tractor moves the two roosters around the hilltop garden area, \u00a0and they are doing a fine job loosening the weeds and nibbling bugs.<\/p>\n<p>The rows get built up with manure from the chicken and rabbit pens and compost. \u00a0Finally the top of each row is dressed with wood mulch and planted with summer cover crops. \u00a0 \u00a0The cover crop this summer is cow peas, \u00a0 with seeds that we saved from last year&#8217;s crop. \u00a0They come up in two days and add nitrogen to the soil for the next crop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1173\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3028-e1458597596122-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The livestock eat the greens and we use some for mulching.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3028-e1458597596122-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3028-e1458597596122-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_3028-e1458597596122-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nitrogen fixing cover crops add valuable nitrogen to the soil. We cut the plants off at the base rather than pulling them out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_NWXOM_xro\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soil building continues at Bent Pine Farm. \u00a0The chicken tractor moves the two roosters around the hilltop garden area, \u00a0and they are doing a fine job loosening the weeds and nibbling bugs. The rows get built up with manure from the chicken and rabbit pens and compost. \u00a0Finally the top of each row is dressed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soil Building Continues July 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-soil-building"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-oY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}